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How I stumbled upon the fact that YAML is a superset of JSON...

I have been, and still remain, a massive proponent of "the cloud". I built Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) as a cloud-first service that took advantage of modern cloud paradigms such as Azure Table Storage to massively drive down costs at crazy levels of performance I never could have achieved...

Visual Studio Code January 2022 Release (1.64) includes New Side Panel, to display more views at once, improved Settings editor search, search now prioritizes whole word matches, Audio cues, to hear when the cursor moves to folded regions, errors, and breakpoints, improved Unicode highlighting, now avoids highlighting characters in supported languages, Automatic terminal replies, to reate automatic responses to common terminal prompts and much more...

Next.js 12 introduces a brand-new Rust compiler, Middleware (beta), React 18 Support, Native ESM Support, URL Imports, React Server Components (alpha), and more...

The open source Git project just released Git 2.35. Here's GitHub's look at some of the most interesting features and changes...

Projects are a customizable, flexible tool for planning and tracking work on GitHub. A project is a customizable spreadsheet that integrates with your issues and pull requests on GitHub. You can customize the layout by filtering, sorting, and grouping your issues and PRs. You can also add custom fields to track metadata. Projects are flexible so that your team can work in the way that is best for them...

Bringing VS Code to the browser: Now when you go to https://vscode.dev, you'll be presented with a lightweight version of VS Code running fully in the browser. Open a folder on your local machine and start coding. No install required...

GitHub Actions: Ephemeral self-hosted runners & new webhooks for auto-scaling...

Next.js 11 continues our mission to create the best developer experience with a new conformance system, out of the box ESLint support, webpack 5, improvements to next/script as well as next/image...

The React team is excited to share a few updates: We've started work on the React 18 release, which will be our next major version. We've created a Working Group to prepare the community for gradual adoption of new features in React 18. We've published a React 18 Alpha so that library authors can try it and provide feedback. These updates are primarily aimed at maintainers of third-party libraries...

This article introduces Aurora, a Chrome initiative to collaborate closely with open-source frameworks...

Houdini is a set of low-level APIs that exposes parts of the CSS engine, giving developers the power to extend CSS by hooking into the styling and layout process of a browser's rendering engine.  Houdini is a group of APIs that give developers direct access to the CSS Object Model (CSSOM), enabling developers to write code the browser can parse as CSS, thereby creating new CSS features without waiting for them to be implemented natively in browsers...

Slack has a global customer base, with millions of simultaneously connected users at peak times. Most of the communication between users involves sending lots of tiny messages to each other. For much of Slack's history, we've used HAProxy as a load balancer for all incoming traffic. Today, we'll talk about problems we faced with HAProxy, …

We built a React library to make it easy to share data between components without manual data copying and code duplication, improve impression accuracy, and log events, like clicks, while bolstering data consistency...

We are pleased to announce that Firefox 87 will introduce a stricter, more privacy-preserving default Referrer Policy. From now on, by default, Firefox will trim path and query string ...

Learn what is new in the Visual Studio Code February 2021 Release (1.54)

Today we're sharing two new features: multiple picture-in-picture (multi-PiP) and our latest privacy protection combo, the dynamic duo of Total Cookie Protection and Supercookie Protections (launched in last month's release) are here to combat cross-site cookie tracking once and for all...

After several intense months of work on such a significant change, the MDN Web Docs new platform (codenamed Yari) is finally launched, The most significant difference with the new platform is that we’ve decentralized the content from a SQL database to files in a git repository. To edit content, you now submit pull requests against the GitHub MDN content repo...

Lots of housekeeping GitHub issues, 10 community pull requests for new features merged, we've also made several updates to how we handle preview editors based on user feedback, the File Explorer now supports Undo and Redo for all file operations, we now show progress in the File Explorer and Status bar for long running file operations, when you start VS Code on Linux or macOS for the first time via the dock or a launcher (and not the terminal)...

Today, we are releasing React 17! The React 17 release is unusual because it doesn’t add any new developer-facing features. Instead, this release is primarily focused on making it easier to upgrade React itself. But I recommend you should still read the release blog post to not miss any important information regarding this new version...

This Update does not bring new features but the focus was to do housekeeping GitHub issues and pull requests ... did you know there is now an official ARM version of VSCode, so that you can now use it on ChromeOS and Raspberry Pi

Next.js 10 introduces Built-in Image Optimization, Internationalized Routing, Next.js Analytics, React 17 Support, and more...

Today we introduce a preview of MongoDB for VS Code, an extension that makes it easy to work with MongoDB directly from your VS Code environment...

There are a number of updates in this version that we hope you will like, some of the key highlights include: Accessible settings editor, Pinned tabs improvements, Linux ARM builds, Improved debugging experience, New JS debugger features, Panel layout improvements, Webview Views support, Updated "Create a Dev Container" tutorial, ...

npm 7 comes with some long-awaited and requested features including: Workspaces: a set of features to the npm CLI that provide support to managing multiple packages from within a singular top-level, root package, Automatically installing peer dependencies, package-lock v2 and support for yarn.lock: Our new package-lock format will unlock the ability to do deterministically reproducible builds...